Teacher Student Relationship

Rating T (May go up)

Xthextalextellxmassacrex

I don't own anything except the plot!

Summary
a blonde babysitter turned high school teacher. Life seems so simple, until you're in this situation because a lot can change in eight years. NaruGaa.

Couples: Main Naruto&&Gaara, Hints of: Kankuro&&Kiba

Little star things (*) are at the bottom for their explanation.

WARNING: EXTREME OOC-NESS! ESPECIALLY WITH GAARA! I'M SORRY! HE'S JUST TOO CREEPER IN THE SHOW I LIKE HIM A LITTLE DIFFERENT:D Also if you made it this far it's kind of an obvious YAOI just saying…

Chapter 5

The End

5.1

I'm Sorry

Saturday morning Naruto woke up still in the blood encrusted shirt from the night before, his head pounding from both the slight hangover and the relentless head bashing he had received from Kankuro the night before.

He got up looking at how much of a mess he was in the mirror seeing his severe black eye and his bruised and swollen nose, he sighed. "I really fucked up," he thought to himself. "I can't wait to go to work looking like his," he shook his head taking off his shirt so he could shower and wash away the dirty feeling.

The hot water from the shower stinging his face tender from the wounds he had just received. The pain in his nose being so severe he knew it had to be broken, he just hoped he didn't have a concussion again knowing that would only prevent him from getting back on the field next season.

Once Naruto had finished showering and getting cleaned up, he called Hinata. "Hey, are you busy?"

"Naruto… Well no, why?" Hinata asked clearly confused.

"Well I figured since you're a school nurse, you might be able to look at something for me?" Naruto replied sounding embarrassed.

"Well you weird person, I'm not checking your ass for hemorrhoids if that's what you want." She said.

Naruto just laughed "No it's nothing like that."

"Well hurry up and come over then," she chuckled back just as playful.

Naruto did just that, and when Hinata opened the door her jaw just dropped in pure shock, "what the fuck did you do?" she asked dragging him by the arm into her house. "Have you been icing that?" she asked concern in her voice sounding like a mother over their teenager.

"Well no," he said quietly ready for his lecture.

"Oh my god, sit down, wait no you lay down," she dragged him to the couch.

Naruto laid across Hinata's plush couch while she made him an ice pack like the ones she made all day at work.

"Now tell me what happened," she demanded after she eliminated the possibility of a concussion and had thoroughly examined his face.

Naruto sighed holding the ice to his nose, "Well okay I guess I deserved it." His voice nasally because of the ice being pressed against it.

Hinata chuckled lightly, "that I believe, people don't just go bashing in other people's faces for fun, well they usually don't, but I mean in you're case it's possible."

Naruto nodded in agreement, "It was Kankuro," Naruto paused seeing Hinata's shock. "Okay well if you want the story you have to promise me you won't get mad and that you won't go tattling on me."

Hinata raised an eyebrow clearly confused, "Alright I promise."

"Well… you know Gaara, Kankuro's little brother?" He asked Hinata, who nodded. "Well since he's been here and I've been teaching him, I've been all fucked up mentally," Naruto sighed. "I've just always wanted the best for him, it's like nothing is ever like worthy of him, and it's been really hard for me to see him following all the wrong paths. I just want to be there in his life showing him what he should be doing. Giving guidance I guess I don't know. It's like I want to be back in his life forever, and it just seems like he keeps pushing me away and it really fucking sucks." Naruto said, he paused trying keep himself calm. "I mean being his teacher I thought it would be the best for him, well for both of us I guess. I thought our relationship would go back to the way it was all that time ago. That's definitely not what's happening. But I guess just being back in his life feels so good. I just think I keep screwing up with my approach and he shouldn't be going through all the stuff he is all because of me…" Naruto said.

Hinata looked at Naruto, "It's hard to take you serious when you talk in that voice," Hinata said referring to the nasally sound.

Naruto gave her a bit of a dirty look "do you want to hear this or not?"

"It was a joke, deep breath please." Hinata responded.

Naruto rolled his eyes "Let me explain better," Naruto said. "Well I guess since Gaara has been in my class we've been fighting and having a lot of heated interactions… well he just gives me so much attitude and he's just a hard student, but at the same time I really don't mind, because I deserve it. I mean I technically deserted him when he was a little boy, and I know I had no choice, but he never really understood that you know?" Naruto paused again for a long time.

Hinata looked at Naruto still confused, but nodded anyway.

"Well, I guess I have to be honest and stop going in circles here for you to be fully understand everything." Naruto paused, "the real problems began after Valentine's Day. On Valentine's Day Itachi, the JV cheer coach and Gaara became officially boyfriends. I hate Itachi, I've always hated Itachi. When I found out that Gaara was even involved with Itachi I wanted to do this to him," Naruto gestured to his face. "I think what happened was I got… well… I think I got jealous of Itachi, and I was pissed that he was even near Gaara or that he might touch or kiss or be just close to him."

Hinata nodded not sure if she should say anything or just let Naruto finish.

Naruto was quiet for a few minutes then began talking again, "Well the Friday after Valentine's Day was when I really fucked up, instead of just talking to Gaara about Itachi and trying to guide him the right way or whatever I was supposed to do I just acted I didn't think. I… well… I kissed him, and not just a little kiss either I let it all out and practically made out with him in my classroom." Naruto said extremely embarrassed at this point.

"Hmm…" Hinata thought for a moment working hard to put her thoughts together, "Naruto I don't think it matters that you kissed him, but what does matter is why you kissed him. You can't kiss someone like Gaara who clearly has these deep feelings for you, and then just kiss him out of jealousy. I need to know did you mean it when you kissed him? Do you care about this whole thing? Or are you just mad because of Itachi?"

Naruto sat really quiet for a minute. "Hinata I think I really care about him, I mean I think my initial reasoning may have been impure, but since I kissed him I haven't been the same, which is why I fucked up again and pulled an even worse stunt."

"What else did you do?" She questioned rolling her eyes ready to slap him herself.

"It wasn't too long after it seemed like all I wanted to do was just have sex with Gaara, but I knew I couldn't do that… so instead I called someone else." Naruto paused embarrassed with himself. "It wasn't like I could just call anyone here, so the one person I knew would want it would be Anko… which I knew she was Gaara's coach but I didn't want to ruin things between me and Gaara but I guess I got caught up because I really did in the end. It was almost a month after Valentine's Day and I just was letting Anko pretend she was in charge and in a relationship while I just got laid, which didn't help as much as I thought it would." Naruto sighed, "I wish I would have never have even called her. I mean I had no idea Gaara and Itachi had already broken up and I thought maybe if he saw me with her he would have just gotten mad about it and tried something else, I didn't think I would hurt him, but I did, and I shouldn't have. So that's what leaves me here now all fucked up." Naruto finally finished.

"Well Naruto, I'm not judging you because we all make mistakes. You have to fix what you've done… and it's not going to be easy. I think you love him, and you always have, but sometimes it takes a big realization before we see how much we really have messed up. You have to tell Anko you don't want anything to do with her and you need to explain to Gaara what it is you want from him and what you want for him especially if he is as precious to you as you say he is." Hinata said putting her hand on his shoulder.

Naruto remained quiet and just nodded realizing everything he had to do.

On Monday Naruto went to work stopping by Hinata's office so she could redo his bandages. He was the topic of everyone's gossip for the entire day. When the news hit Gaara he just shrugged and said "He probably deserved it."

It wasn't until his last class when he actually saw how bad Kankuro had beaten up Naruto, and felt a twinge of guilt. As everyone was packing up Gaara being one of the last few students in the classroom. In rushed a pissed off Anko.

"What the hell Naruto?" she shot, "you really think you can break up with me over text?"

Naruto just sighed rolling his eyes clearly not in the mood, "I told you I have fallen in love with someone else," he replied glancing at Gaara who was looking at the scene eyes wide, trying to hurry to put everything away.

"How dare you cheat on me!" she yelled.

"I wasn't under the impression we were together…" Naruto paused "besides I already got beaten up for her." He said looking at Gaara again who was about to walk out of the classroom, pausing looking back at the scene then leaving.

Gaara continued out of the classroom confused what was Naruto trying to say, the only person he knew that beat him up was Kankuro. So why would he say that, and why was he breaking up with Anko since they seemed so happy together that one day. Maybe Naruto was just trying to guilt trip Gaara or maybe he really was in love with Gaara, either way Gaara felt kinda bad about what happened Naruto.

As Gaara was at his job with Kiba he thought about it a lot trying to decide if he should apologize just because he didn't think Kankuro would beat him up that bad.

Tuesday rolled around and Gaara got ready wearing a short sleeve black button shirt and a black long sleeve knit sweater with small white cotton balls that added texture to the sweater and a white bow tie. His pants were a pair of medium wash skinny jeans that were intentionally faded and were tightly rolled up showing his ankles and his feet in a pair of white vans. Since he started working he found was easier to dress in office appropriate tops and jeans so when he got home to change it was a rather quick process.

Gaara got to school, and met Kiba like he always did to put the dress pants in his car like they had been doing for a while. Then went to school like always going to the classes.

When Gaara got to his last class he saw Mr. Uzumaki's newest little bruise on his cheek, it must have been from Anko smacking him across the cheek with one of her ring clad hands leaving his a light bruise under the eye opposite of that of the black eye.

Gaara couldn't help but feel bad for Naruto, it seemed like everyone hated him right now. Not that Gaara thought Naruto was such a saint, but he didn't think this was what he deserved. At least not from Anko especially after what Naruto had said the day before. Gaara remained quiet the entire class thinking of whether or not he should apologize today or tomorrow. Straightening his bow tie as class ended he decided one more day would be more appropriate, just because he felt it was what needed to happen.

As Gaara was getting ready to leave work he told Kiba to wait for a little while he wanted to talk to his sister.

Gaara knocked on Temari's office door, "Come in," she called.

Gaara opened the door, Temari was putting on her suit jacket over her perfectly pressed button up shirt. "Temari," Gaara asked.

Temari turned to him, "What's up Gaara? Are you having any problems with your work?"

Gaara shook his head no, "I actually wanted to ask you something,"

Temari raised an eyebrow and leaned on her desk, "What is it?" she asked curiously.

"Well what if you got in a fight with the guy you liked, and it was… I guess pretty bad… but totally your fault, and he isn't mad anymore when do you say sorry?" Gaara asked embarrassed.

"Well…" Temari thought for a moment, "I think it depends on what the fight was about, if he's sorry and not mad at you anymore it's up to your own judgment, if the fight was that bad you might wanna really think about it, but for me usually I wait until we've both had enough time to cool off. I mean I am married so I have to live with him and if he makes me that mad it's a lot harder than when I was in high school and could just ignore him for a few days. I personally think the magic number in high school and dating in general is three days." She finished proud of her answer.

Gaara nodded, "Temari you are so smart!" He hugged his sister, and they both began to walk out of the office to where Kiba was waiting for them.

The next morning Gaara decided today he would make the effort he should have despite Kankuro beating Naruto up five days ago, it had been three days since Gaara had seen the damage.

Gaara got ready for school feeling a little more relaxed and with the weather warming up a little bit he figured he could be a little more relaxed in his outfit. Still keeping in mind his side job he wore a black three quarter length sleeve black button up shirt that the collar and cuffs had a small design on them keeping the top button undone. Wearing his thick framed Versace glasses to give him a more professional vibe later. He wore bright red jeans that were rolled up a little higher than the ones he had worn the day before showing just a little more of his ankle. On his feet were a pair of black TOMS that he wore without socks.

Grabbing his plain black backpack and messing up his straightened bright red hair he left for school.

Like usual the day drug on and on until lunch where him and Kiba talked about nothing in particular and complained about the cafeteria. When it was time for Gaara to go to his last class he could feel his stomach fill with butterflies as he entered Naruto's classroom.

As the class drew to an end Gaara slowly put everything away in his bag then sat back in his seat waiting for everyone to leave. Finally once everyone left Gaara stood up, and looked at Naruto who was closing the door. Naruto was actually really surprised that Gaara had stayed on his own accord for once.

Naruto looked at Gaara really confused "Gaara, I want to apologize to you… I really did deserve everything that happened to me." Naruto gestured to his whole body.

"Well I honestly didn't think he'd hit you that hard," Gaara said honestly.

"Gaara he should have, I really want you to know how much I care for you…" Naruto paused walking up to where Gaara was standing. "I just wanted to use Anko for sex… I didn't want you to know about her but I just kinda let her use me like I was using her… I didn't want to hurt you like I did but somehow I just kinda got caught up in things." Naruto tried to explain himself realizing this was so unexpected he wasn't sure how to word everything he was saying Gaara was far more intimidating than Hinata was.

"Look," Gaara said, "I just wanted to say I'm sorry about Kankuro… he told me he was gonna kick your ass… but I didn't think he would beat the shit out of you." Gaara said calmly having thought about this all day. "I think you need to think about what you're trying to say to me, because I don't think you're ready for this long speech you're trying to give."

Naruto was quiet for a long time not sure what to say Gaara had just hit the nail on the head with what he had just said.

"Look I'll accept this apology because I know you mean it, but all I wanted to say was that I'm sorry about what Kankuro did," Gaara finished grabbing his bag and walking to the door.

"Bye Gaara," Naruto said quietly.

"Bye," and with that Gaara walked out of the classroom with attitude like he always did.

Naruto couldn't help but feel relieved about Gaara accepting his shitty draft one of his apology, disappointed in his word choice but happier overall.

It took about two weeks for Naruto's bruises to fade to almost nothing his nose still sore, especially after he went to the doctor because of Hinata's constant bugging him about it. The doctor didn't do much which annoyed Naruto because he already knew it was broken, now the doctor just told him again and said there was nothing he could do because it was really minor break, and if anything changed to come back.

As far as school had gone Gaara had changed his attitude to Naruto from being bad and obnoxious to being fairly indifferent just doing his school work and catching up on all the assignments that he had been behind on.

As the last week of March approached Naruto finally had put his words together so he could properly apologize to Gaara.

Naruto had rehearsed his words throughout the day in his head. He wore a pastel orange short sleeve button up tucked into his khaki pants, and was waiting for Gaara to enter his classroom when it was finally time for the last class.

Gaara walked in, it was Friday and Gaara and Kiba's day off so he didn't have to worry about wearing work appropriate clothes. Instead he wore a very low cut v-neck shirt and light wash tattered jeans with black vans. Stuffed in his backpack was an oversized knit sweater he had worn since it was fairly cool in the morning.

Naruto thought of why he would tell Gaara to stay after class but decided on just walking up to Gaara before the class started and telling him, "Gaara can I talk about the last assignment you have to make up after class?"

Gaara looked up at Naruto surprised because he thought he had finished making everything up but shrugged and nodded.

When class ended Gaara sat waiting for everyone to leave. Naruto sat on the back counter of his room waiting for the last of the students to leave while he studied Gaara. This being the first short sleeve he had ever seen Gaara in Naruto was surprised to see strong definition in Gaara's arms, being cut and well defined most likely from all the cheering he did. Although his arms were by no means huge, Naruto was very impressed. He couldn't help his mind running on to think of where else that small body was toned, something he tried to avoid thinking of for so long.

Finally as he waved goodbye to the final student he walked behind them and closed the door.

"So what am I missing?" Gaara said looking down at his phone.

"Nothing actually, I just wanted to talk to you for a minute." Naruto replied.

Gaara looked up from his phone his eyes filled with shock, "oh."

"Gaara, I know last time I tried to apologize I really just went crazy," Naruto began sitting on the table across from Gaara. "I wanted to say, Gaara I care about you, after I kissed you… I kept wanting to kiss you again… I wanted to do so much with you, but I knew I couldn't. So I looked to Anko, because well she's easy so I figured I could use her… but we ended up using each other. She wanted a 'boyfriend' and I wanted sex. So I let her pretend… and got caught in her fantasy." Naruto paused looking at Gaara who was looking down at his back pack not really at Naruto. "I just thought I would make you mad if you saw us together, I never wanted to hurt you. I guess it's just I have really poor judgment on these things. All I want is to care for you and for you to be happy." Naruto finished looking still at Gaara who's eyes finally met his.

Gaara lacked words which didn't happen very often, so instead he stood up and rushed to Naruto throwing his arms around Naruto. Who at first was thrown off guard by the small red head then let his arms find their way around him.

Gaara couldn't help but feel his eyes watering in happiness, now everything was better between the two of them not just like the first round of apologizes that happened.

It was that speech that Naruto had perfected that allowed both Gaara and Naruto to go back to normal. Gaara actually being a good student now, completing everything and not being negatively obnoxious like he could be.

As time went by Gaara realized just how much he liked his new job, realizing that it had affected him in so many ways, he now had begun to think about fashion in a whole new light instead of focusing on being the center of attention and keeping his style unique and eye catching he was now focusing on how to make current high fashion clothing his own. Wishing he was a woman because high fashion for them had so many more options.

Recently Temari had invited Gaara to meet with a new yet very popular new designer who's fashions were just coming to Japan, but had wanted to enter with a bang. Despite the meeting being very formal for the most part Gaara was able to view what the designers sketches looked like prior to being placed into the advertisement. After the meeting Temari invited the young designer to a business lunch where they could further discuss other plans about where these lines would be sold as well where she thought his people should be going to make the next move.

During the business lunch Gaara was able to ask a few questions just out of curiosity finding out this young designer was a graduate of FIDM of New York*. Which struck Gaara as being an overall reachable goal for himself seeing that his father was living in New York currently.

After that meeting Gaara began doing further research about FIDM finding out what it took to get in and it was fairly close to where his dad was staying. Gaara soon began tossing the idea around noting that there was even a branch of FIDM in Los Angeles.

One night at dinner with Kankuro Gaara decided he should bring up the idea to Kankuro about possibly finishing his senior year of high school at high school in New York then applying to go to FIDM of New York for college and possibly look for a career in design himself.

"So what you think?" Gaara asked honestly after thoroughly explaining his plans to Kankuro.

Kankuro smiled at his brother, "You know what Gaara I think that actually sounds like a really good idea for you, despite that you hate America…" Kankuro joked about Gaara's past antics. "I was wondering why you hadn't thought about design school before." Kankuro then said.

Gaara nodded, "Well I have it's just there isn't really any good design schools for fashion here…" Gaara replied pausing, "and it's not like I really knew any good ones anywhere else for that matter, but that designer I met with Temari really inspired me."

"Well I just think New York sounds like a really good option for you, and besides Dad's there, you can get more familiar with American culture for a year before diving into design school, and I don't know if you know this or not, but in New York their public schools aren't like normal American one's. Instead of going by districts their high schools go by student interests. So since you want to go into design I think you could probably get into like a fine arts high school or something like that at least…" Kankuro paused for a moment, "you know in design school you do a lot of sketching right?"

Gaara grinned "That's even better," Gaara thought out loud, "and shut up, I've actually been taking Naruto's class more seriously and my sketches have improved so dramatically that even you'd be surprised," Gaara replied with a snarky tone.

Kankuro and Gaara both just laughed, but this meant that Gaara had a lot of thinking he needed to do.

5.2

Decisions

April finally began and it hit the ground running with Gaara actually taking his classes seriously instead of goofing off and getting the B's he had currently he began to focus on them being all A's which was still fairly possible. The weather was finally getting a lot warmer but also rainier which still called for a jacket.

Today Gaara finally decided to ask Mr. Umino what he could do to raise his grade from the current B- he was barely holding onto. "Mr. Umino, I know I have proven to be a rather tough student, however I was wondering what I could do to raise my grade that I have. I know I have some outstanding homework assignments I could make up for half credit as you have offered before." Gaara used his most respectful voice he could muster, similar to when he spoke as "high society" when he was with his father.

Iruka sighed, "Alright Mr. Sabaku I'll give you to the end of this week to make up the assignments you are missing. Although they will still only be a fifty percent which makes them an F they will still be way better than having a zero. Also we have a test coming up next week if you do poorly on that you will mostly likely lose your B." Iruka maintained his cool the whole time, "However, if you complete all your missing assignments as well as do well on the last two tests you might be capable of raising your grade high enough to have an A."

Gaara nodded smiling, "I totally understand, I will have all the assignments in by Friday."

"Good luck Mr. Sabaku," Iruka nodded.

"Thank you sir," Gaara replied.

Naruto was also finding more luck on his side, he sat going through the sketchbooks of students late one night finishing up some grading when his cell phone began to ring. Noticing the California area code Naruto switched his brain as fast as he could to english, "Hello, this is Brian."

"Brian how are you?" at that point Naruto realized that it was the head coach of the San Diego Chargers.

"I'm doing wonderful sir, I've missed playing so much though," Naruto replied "What about you?"

"Wonderful, I heard you went to Japan?"

"Yes I actually picked up a teaching position here,"

"Wow, that's nice, well I did call to offer you your job back here on the team? Starting this preseason?** If you play well it'll be guaranteed that you'll be on the starting line. I know you're not getting soft on me, are you?"

Naruto laughed, "Yeah once I finish up this school year I had been hoping to move back to California, and don't you worry I would never get soft I run twice a day and lift for two to four hours depending on the day."

"Good to hear, I can't wait to get you back on the field!"

The two continued some basic chatter for a while but ended rather quickly.

The following Wednesday after Naruto had decided to take up his old job, Gaara had to make up a test he had missed the previous Friday because he too "sick" to go to school that day, but had actually skipped to go meet another designer that Temari was working with. Due to Gaara needing to make up the test that he had missed Naruto had chased out all of the young girls that like to waste their lunch in his classroom. Gaara took his test while Naruto graded more assignments, when he finished he walked to turn it in.

"Go easy on me," Gaara said jokingly

Naruto laughed and grabbed a red marker and said "F for failed" he mimicked making the english letter F on Gaara's paper.

"HA HA." Gaara said faking his annoyance. "But really I'm really trying to brush up my grades alright? I have no idea what it might be like next year…" Gaara trailed off.

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Why is that?"

"Well I think I'm gonna finish high school in New York and live with my Dad." Gaara explained.

"That's surprising to me, but that could be good for you… honestly though I was sort of nervous to tell you that I'm going to be leaving back to California soon after school lets out for summer." Naruto said, "But if you'll be there I think I could at least see you more often…" He smiled.

Gaara blushed lightly, "You're going back?"

"Well that's where the money is," Naruto replied with a matter of fact tone.

"Well if I'm there do I get to be invited to your football games or?" Gaara said almost bashfully.

Naruto laughed, "Well Jiraiya and Tsunade aren't gonna be sitting in the seats for the free tickets I get so I don't see the issue."

As finals week began its approach Gaara and Kiba began to slow down on their hours they worked and began to study more and more. Most evenings were spent at Kankuro's house with Gaara and Kiba taking over nearly every room, starting usually in the living room until Kankuro got home followed by the kitchen in attempt to block out Kankuro's habits of watching TV or playing some sort of video game, they would usually stay there until Gaara said the hard bar stools were hurting his butt and they would end up back in Gaara's room.

During finals week Gaara could barely hide his excitement, he had planned a trip with Kiba to New York for two weeks at the beginning of the summer after Gaara had already been out for a couple of weeks himself. To make sure that was what he wanted then officially moving out there at the end of the summer with all of his stuff. Gaara had even been calling his father more regularly, providing their schedules allowed, which was one of the most un-Gaara things out there.

Mid finals week Gaara and Kiba had been studying at Kankuro's house everyday since they had taken off work so they could completely focus on their studies. Wednesday Gaara and Kiba had been spread all across almost half of Kankuro's house, with open books left in the small library outside of Gaara's room, within the formal living room near the entrance of the house, and of course all across Gaara's room. During one of their breaks Gaara had been texting away on his phone acting quite suspiciously, Kiba kept looking over questioningly but Gaara pretended not to notice.

"So Kiba, I'm gonna pick up this paper I need for my art final from this girl in my class, you think you'll be alright staying here for a little while. Kankuro will be home soon, but just make yourself at home." Gaara had finally said.

Kiba having spent most of his free time at Gaara and Kankuro's house just nodded. "Yeah, I'm gonna get a snack."

Gaara nodded with a smile and pushed on his TOM's from earlier that day then rushing out the back door.

Kiba knew with the mention of "art class" Gaara wasn't meeting some girl, most likely he was meeting Mr. Uzumaki. Not that he had done this before, but since a few weeks back Gaara had been spending more and more time in Mr. Uzumaki's classroom after school had already been released.

That was exactly where Gaara was going. Naruto had texted him that he would like to see him and not at school where there would be any suspicion of what was going on between the two of them. Gaara had replied with a simple "I have some questions."

Once Gaara had left Kiba got up from his seat in the formal living room and began to walk over to the living room, all the studying was beginning to get all mixed together so a break would definitely be beneficial. Kiba sat in the stiff black couch and turned on the television. Mostly for background noise, recently he found himself really thinking about Kankuro. Not only was Kankuro handsome, he was so nice and genuine, he was always going way out of his way for Kiba even with the most minor things.

The snack he was talking about earlier really did sound good, so he got up and made his way to kitchen. After digging around in the refrigerator for a while, searching through several leftover take out boxes he finally decided on one of the parfait style yogurts that he and Gaara had bought the previous day from the grocery store. Sitting at the one of the bar stools he poured the granola on top and mixed it together so the vanilla yogurt, the berry medley and the granola all mixed together. Stretching out his back he arched it sticking his bubbly little butt out from the stool, then he slumped down, and repeated this for a while staying at the arched position while he sat there.

Kankuro walked in from the garage, he kicked off his shoes at the entrance near the door and sat his keys in the little bowl on a small corner table. The television being on and slightly loud Kiba did not notice Kankuro walking in. Kankuro walked through the living room noticing the television, he then began to walk towards the kitchen where Kiba was perched on the chair, back arched and ass looking extra plump sucking on his spoon.

At this point Kankuro almost could not help himself and cleared his throat saying "Hey Kiba, do you got a shovel?"

Kiba turning the color of a tomato and looking over his shoulder, "what?" his posture changed as he began to just sit straight up.

"I said, do you got a shovel? 'Cause I'm diggin that ass." Kankuro said chuckling then laughing.

Kiba's face brightened even more, "Oh Kankuro, why do you embarrass me like that." he put his hands on his cheeks.

"Well you should know I'm not a liar, I only speak the truth." Kankuro replied walking so he was right by Kiba.

Kiba turned around in the stool so that now he was facing Kankuro, with his cheeks still rosy he said "you really think so?"

"I told you I don't lie." Kankuro smiled placing a hand under Kiba's chin.

Kiba's eyes began to flutter almost shut as they both began to lean in, and in just as fast as it started their lips were pressed together in a warm sweet kiss.

Meanwhile Gaara pulled into Naruto's driveway, he sat in his car nervously with one final hard swallow he got out and walked to the front door where Naruto stood waiting. He was leaning against the door frame wearing loose adidas sweats and a blue and orange striped tank top. Reminding Gaara just how amazingly sculpted he was.

Gaara pursed his lips together to try and keep himself together, but Gaara knew his facade would not last long at all. It never did with Naruto.

"So you have questions?" Naruto asked curiously with a slight smirk.

"Oh you shut up, can we go inside?" Gaara responded with a bit of sass.

Naruto laughed and pushed the door open, welcoming Gaara into his house. Gaara kicked off his TOMs next to all of Naruto's size 15*** shoes, his size 8s looked tiny in comparison. Gaara walked into the living room of Naruto's house.

"Well this is nicer than i had expected" Gaara murmured to himself as he looked around at the decent sized two story house.

Naruto laughed again "Thanks I guess, what did you think? That I lived behind a dumpster?"

"Oh get over yourself." Gaara raised an eyebrow and finished it off with an eye roll.

"I'm just saying," Naruto replied. "I'm glad you came over, I've really been wanting to see you outside of school. It means a lot. So really what's up with you, what are your 'questions?'"

Gaara slightly chewed his lip before thinking of what to say, "well…" Gaara dragged his word out. "So remember Valentine's day?"

Naruto nodded.

"Well…" Gaara still dragging his words nervously. "I guess I thought you should know that i really liked that… that kiss." Gaara sighed in mild relief.

Naruto raised an eyebrow and moved closer to Gaara. "Are you asking me to do it again?"

Gaara's cheeks were nearly the color red as his hair while his eyes stared at their feet not moving for a second, "well kinda?"

Naruto's smile was so genuine as he looked down at Gaara, "look at me" he asked.

Gaara slowly looked up at the tall blonde who then leaned down to plant a sweet kiss to his lips, they kissed gently at first but the heat that was between them began to raise and Naruto began to pull Gaara to the couch lifting him so they sort of fell on the couch together.

Gasping for breath Garara pulled away and let his forehead rest upon Naruto's. "Thank you" Gaara whispered.

Naruto chuckled, "you're the cutest thing." He followed by kissing Gaara again sweeter this time not so heated.

When Gaara finally pulled away he placed his forehead on Naruto's chest. "I have so many feelings…" he took a deep breath wanting only to savor this very moment until he could not bare it anymore.

"I know… me too." Naruto replied his hands brushing against the hair on the nape of Gaara's neck.

A while had passed as they sat comfortably on Naruto's couch, Gaara clinging tightly to Naruto's neck, while Naruto sat with his hands gently draped on Gaara's back one hand slightly tucked in Gaara's pants just above his butt.

Gaara sat so overwhelmed with emotion and love he could not believe what was happening. "I… I think I should get going." Gaara nearly whispered.

"Why?" Naruto dragged out.

"I left Kiba at my house with Kankuro… what time is it?" Gaara pulled his wrist to his face looking at the leather banded big-face analog watch his eyes widened. "It's almost been an hour. I really do have to go."

Naruto sighed this time putting his head smack in Gaara's chest "I just don't want to lose this. Once you leave it all goes back to reality."

Gaara grabbed Naruto's head pulling it to his chest "I know… but can you help me come up with some notes I told Kiba I was coming to get some notes for my art final not to make out with you."

Naruto began to laugh and pushed away from Gaara's chest giving him a quick peck on the lips and nodded "Yeah come on, Mr. I-have-to-hurry-home."

When Gaara returned home he rushed in the house with his notebook in hand throwing his keys into the bowl near the door, the tv still on and loud. As he walked towards his room he looked in the kitchen where his brother stood between Kiba's legs while Kiba was sitting on the kitchen counter. Gaara's eyes grew wide. He shook his head then looked back, their noses were pressed close, in disbelief he walked back into his room his mind racing with so many ideas he could not study instead he flipped back and forth through his books filled with happiness like he'd never felt before, until he began nap across the floor on one of his books.

Meanwhile Kiba and Kankuro looked into each others eyes Kankuro moved in for another kiss and Kiba blushed as it happened. They sat there in the kitchen kissing, Kankuro pushing up against Kiba his hands pressing against Kiba's butt. Kiba pulled away gently his eyes scared.

"I'm sorry, I just really like this…" Kankuro replied looking down.

"Well I mean you're not gonna just do this… and then like pretend I don't exist right?" Kiba paused. "I mean I'm prepared for that so please don't feel like you have to lie to me. I mean I know you probably don't want to tell Gaara and I mean I don't either, but just be honest with me."

Kankuro immediately looked back up into Kiba's his eye full of concern and brow nearly furrowed "What? is that because you think I just date girls?" Kankuro grabbed Kiba's face so he would look at him.

Kiba nodded.

Kankuro sighed, "Well that's what Gaara thinks but I've honestly dated men before alright… I just have never like gotten far with them… and I know you probably don't wanna know this but I've always been attracted to… well I guess you're type? However I haven't like ever slept with a man?" Kankuro took a step back his own mind going a thousand miles per hour. "I just have never felt this way before and well… about Gaara we'll figure it out" Kankuro shook his head letting go of Kiba's and just looking at him.

Kiba was so shocked he could have cried instead he pulled Kankuro close again this time wrapping his legs around him. Kankuro kept his head in Kiba's chest. "Thank you…"

School wrapped up with Gaara hitting all his goals with the extra efforts he had been trying.

As Gaara finished his last final he knew he had to stop by Naruto's classroom and mildly celebrate with him. His idea of celebration was slightly foggy.

Gaara rushed out of the classroom after he finished the exam, rushing to Naruto's classroom. Naruto was in his classroom with boxes filled with different projects from different classes throughout the year each one labeled. Gaara pushed the door open slowly.

"Hey…" Gaara dragged on as he stepped in the class.

Naruto looked over his shoulder and smiled. "Oh hey, you finished with class?"

Gaara nodded "Yeah, I feel pretty good about it."

Naruto nodded, "I have to finish cleaning out my classroom… I guess no one wanted these back?" he gestured to the boxes.

Gaara looked into one of the boxes looking at the projects, "I think you were popular," Gaara pulled out two different canvases both with spirals on them.

"You think those were about me?" Naruto began to laugh.

Gaara rolled his eyes playfully "Don't be thick. Are you serious?" Gaara lost it laughing almost uncontrollably pulling out a canvas that had Naruto spelled out* in the naruto fish cakes.

Naruto laughed. "I was gonna keep that."

Gaara rolled his eyes again "You would."

"Wanna come over later?" Naruto said seriously for a moment.

"Seriously?"

"No I can't stand you. Yes seriously!" Naruto replied.

"Yeah, I guess" Gaara said with sass sitting on top of one of the tables pushing the boxes over.

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Alright good."

It was then a cluster of girls burst through the door "Mr. Uzumaki!"

Gaara hopped off the table, "Have a good summer Mr. Uzumaki." Gaara said walking out of the classroom an eyebrow raised as he looked back over his shoulder.

Kiba walked out of the classroom he was in which was near Gaara's locker. Gaara was there filling a nearby trash with all of his trashed old homework assignments he either never finished or never cared about he was dumping the notebooks that were barely used. "I can't believe how much of a waist this is" Gaara shrugged rolling his eyes.

Kiba nodded, "you don't have to through it all out…" Kiba nearly cringed as Gaara flipped his backpack upside down over the trash and shook.

"Let's go get dinner in a while?" Gaara asked slamming the locker door.

Kiba nodded.

Dinner passed by quickly and Gaara and Kiba got back sitting across Kankuro's couch watching a movie, Kiba was nearly asleep when Kankuro walked in from the garage the door slamming behind him waking both of them up completely.

"Sorry guys, I didn't mean to wake you or like scare you." Kankuro kicked off his large shoes. "What are you watching?"

Gaara rolled his eyes, "I don't know some TV movie it's stupid." Gaara picked up his phone there was not any messages he threw it down to the next seat on the couch.

Kankuro nodded. "I'm gonna change."

Kiba sat as invisible as he could be pulling the throw that was on the couch over his body, catching more of Kankuro's attention then he had planned.

They all sat watching the movie Kankuro included. "What's on next?" Kankuro said getting bored.

"I don't know." Gaara said throwing the remote at his brother.

Kankuro scrolled through the guide picking a horror movie that had just began.

"Are you kidding this one isn't even scary, put on an American one... Something really scary!" Gaara said.

"But my english is soooo bad." Kiba murmured into the throw he had adopted.

"You'll be fine, Americans speak terrible english anyway and that's their primary language." Gaara replied.

Kankuro nodded in agreement. "It's really true, but my dad just sent me one, it might be dubbed?" Kankuro grabbed a DVD that was on the shelf near his TV. The Conjuring it said. "I haven't watched it myself but apparently it's really scary."

"Oh I love American movies they're always so ridiculous." Gaara said as Kankuro began to put in the disc.

As Kankuro sat back down he moved to grab his phone. "Ugh what does this fucker want." He mumbled texting back.

Gaara looked over trying to get a glimpse of who the text was from. "Who is it?"

"Naruto, apparently he wants to talk to me." Kankuro said getting up and walking over to the front of his house then peeking out the blinds.

Gaara could feel the blood rushing to his face. Kankuro opened the door and walked outside. Gaara wanted to go see if he could hear what was going on outside. He thought he heard arguing but was unsure. He looked over at Kiba, "do you think I should go over there?"

Kiba's eyes were huge as he stared at the tv screen replaying the main menu feature over and over. "Gaara don't… what if they start fighting or something crazy… you don't wanna get hurt do you?"

"But if they do shouldn't I stop it?" Gaara paused, he bit his lip in nerves.

All of a sudden they heard laughing, and in both Kankuro and Naruto both walked in their swag matching. Gaara could have sworn to have never had rolled his eyes this hard as he did. Kankuro and Naruto wore nearly the same clothes and walked about the same.

"Don't tell me you to called each other to coordinate your outfits?" Gaara said in a snarky voice.

"No, we leave that for you and Kiba" Naruto replied his eyebrow doing the thing that drove Gaara crazy.

Gaara rolled his eyes.

"All that time and you never pushed play?" Kankuro said.

Gaara shrugged "The remote was far, besides it's rude to watch a movie without everyone."

Kankuro just laughed and grabbed the remote falling back into the couch Naruto said down near Gaara and looked over at Gaara "You're not gonna get too scared are you?" he smiled playfully.

"I don't get scared." Gaara replied, Gaara got up and rushing over to his study to grab a blanket, then nearly jumping back onto the couch with his blanket.

Naruto laughed, "so you went and got a blanket?"

"I never said I didn't get cold." Gaara responded situating himself on the couch fluffing his blanket.

As the movie went on and all the scary things began to happen and as Kankuro's house got colder Naruto pulled Gaara's blanket on to himself. Gaara looked at him, Naruto just smirked his hand grabbing on to Gaara's much smaller one. Gaara's eyes widened then softened.

"This is so scary, and even scarier because I don't know what they're saying" Kiba said in the corner of the couch by himself.

Kankuro's eyes became so gentle as he looked at Kiba, "Well come sit over here and I'll tell you what they're saying."

Kiba blushed, "you don't have to… I mean I understand a lot it's just still weird."

As Kankuro waved him over Gaara smirked, as he kicked Naruto to scoot over. As Kiba slowly got up and walked over to the seat next Kankuro, Naruto slowly stretched across the couch taking up more of where Kiba was sitting.

The movie continued and no one really paid attention because they were all slightly uncomfortable wishing they could be how they wanted to be.

The movie finished, Kiba was asleep on Kankuro's should who was also asleep with his head leaning back on the couch his arm gently draped over Kiba.

Gaara got up stretching then turning the TV off, he looked over at his brother and Kiba happily. Naruto stayed sitting, for a while. "Sorry my body takes a while to get ready to move after I've been sitting down for a while."

Gaara chuckled lightly, "come on old man."

Naruto stood up then picked Gaara up throwing his over his shoulder, "I'll show you 'old man'"

Naruto carried Gaara back to Gaara's room, throwing him on the bed. Gaara was nearly breathless. "Wow…" was all he could utter.

Naruto laughed. "I thought you would like that."

It was from their they began to kiss and one thing had led to another.*

The next morning Gaara woke up wrapped in Naruto's large arms. He wanted to scream and dance, this was something he never thought would happen. Gaara wiggled out of bed a little sore from the night before, he was careful not to wake Naruto. He showered quickly then putting on some sweats and a t-shirt.

Kankuro and Kiba were still asleep on the couch Gaara began making breakfast for himself pouring cereal into a bowl, followed by milk.

Gaara's stirring had managed to wake up the rest of the house. Naruto walked out of Gaara's bedroom blonde spikes in every direction. He smiled sleepily at Gaara who grabbed another bowl and began to fill it with cereal as well. He pushed the bowl towards Naruto who pulled it the rest of the way Gaara passed him a spoon then walked around to sit next to Naruto at the bar. They ate their cereal in near silence they heard Kankuro yawn loudly. Kiba was sitting up rubbing his sleepy eyes blushing as bright as could be. Kankuro was stretching and yawning making quite the noise.

"I wish my house had an actual kitchen table," Kankuro said as he slowly got up Kiba scooted over still very tired.

Naruto laughed. "Well you had it in your mind that you didn't want breakfast… never mind."

Kankuro shook his head. "Yeah that was a stupid idea. I like breakfast."

Gaara just rolled his eyes and shook his head.

Kiba finally began to get up from the couch and make his way to kitchen. He leaned up against Kankuro's arm. "I did not sleep good at all… I kept dreaming in shitty english." Kiba said, he had small bags under his eyes.

Gaara laughed "I'm so sorry."

"Try living in America and you always dream in shitty english," Naruto said.

Kiba shook his head, "No thank you."

Kankuro grabbed two more bowls and poured more cereal.

It was not long after the night of the scary movie that Gaara had to leave for the United States, the same went for Naruto.

After packing and shipping a majority of his closet over to his Dad's Gaara packed five more suitcases that proved a pain in the ass to maneuver through the airport at least until they were checked, and was ready to leave. He hugged both Kankuro and Kiba who took him to the airport. "I'll see you guys soon."

Kiba nodded "I know, I fly out there in two weeks. I think I'm excited." Kiba said as he let go of Gaara.

"I'm thinking I'll go with him…" Kankuro said as he side hugged his brother.

Gaara wiggled his eyebrows at his brother. "Good."

"Come on Gaara do you wanna be late?" Naruto called who was already walking towards the security.

"Ok shit, I am coming, bye I love you guys!" Gaara called as he rushed towards Naruto carrying only his Gucci backpack. "America here I come." Gaara said excitedly as they went through the priority security line.

~fin

YAY! I finally finished this thing that has been plaguing me since high school. JK I loved writing this, and really did forget how much so I like writing this. Thank you to all my loyal readers and new readers the same. I feel so overwhelmed when I look at my story stats, it makes me want to continue. Please let me know if you want an afterward. I kinda want to write about Gaara's life in NYC even if it is just brief. Please send me some feedback! I am so glad to have finally finished. I honestly think that is the most exciting part for me!

Thank you!

xoxo

Sammiiiq aka xthextellxtalexmassacrex

Meaning behind all the ****

*FIDM- The Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing. I'm not to sure how popular this school is, but apparently according to my high school it was fairly a prestige school in the fashion industry especially when in New York and California. (My friend studied at the California branch.)

**Preseason Football- This is when professional football season begins again. Usually it consists of the back ups playing a majority of the games, also does not count towards the total wins and losses for the team. Occasionally the starting players will play for a little while or small parts of games.

***Size 15 shoes- These are really huge I do not know how they compare to other countries shoe sizes but they're really large.

****The Naruto artwork- I was conveying this in the Kanji style like the way Naruto is written in "Japanese" for the show.

*****The non existent sex scene- I originally wrote the sex scene for this, but wanted to keep the teen rating. I also wanted to give it a less graphic feel, but again decided against it. However if you are still interested in that let me know and I'll crank it out. I already have it written just not edited.

Review Replies

Hibiscus Moscheutos

Hi, I hope this was a decent wrap up for you. I feel pretty good about it… well kinda. I hope you enjoy! Also sorry this took nearly ages.

Andildraco

I really thought of adding more of his creepiness. Also… if I write a follow up (depending on feedback) or an "afterwards" sort of thing I will include just that.

You are sooo amazing for following thus far. You have been one of the main motivators to actually finish this I mildly/strongly almost gave up then I went back and reread my reviews and it pushed me to at least finish.

TigrezzTail

Yes, don't worry I had this all planned. I have (and continue to) a full binder with tabs and extremely rough sketches of outfits for each character/chapter etc. for this whole entire story.

Toshiro with love

Yes! I have attempted and had my cousin read their description and see what she could do (she's an amazing anime artist) and she said she would try. Sooo I'll see what I can do!

A/N **FINAL

Thanks so much everyone! I hope you enjoy I have other ideas and plot bunnies I can try to crank out but I would like get some great feedback from everyone! Thanks again everyone!